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Humor Illustration: CHRISTIAN FOOTBALL!!
Quarterback Sneak - Church members quietly leaving during the invitation.
Draw Play - What many children do with the bulletin during worship.
Half-time - The period between Sunday school and worship when many choose to leave.
Benchwarmer - Those who do
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2005
Do you know that at one point ‘pew rental’ was a common custom in the church? It was one of the ways, if not the chief way, to raise money. It was like paying admission.
I did a short Internet search and found several articles on the subject including one about church in Australia that mentioned
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Contributed by Jim Kilson on May 6, 2006
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A wealthy man before leaving on an extended vacation said to a contractor, "While I am away, I want you to build me a fine new home according to these plans. Be sure you work with extreme care, and use the best of everything. Tell me the cost as soon as you have it and I’ll send you a check."
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Quotes from the book The Light and The Glory.
i. Marshall states, “Before the voyage had begun, Columbus had been a beggar before God, all his hopes hanging on Ferdinand and Isabella’s approval…BUT…Columbus chose the three things the world prizes most (after his successful journey) money (his
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jerry Caddell on Feb 16, 2007
A young man went out to buy his first car. He didn’t have a lot of money to spend so he went to a local used-car lot where he found a 1967 Red Mustang in what appeared to be mint condition. He was told by the salesman that the car had been owned by a little old lady from Pasadena, oops, I’m sorry,
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Methodist
Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jul 9, 2007
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The Printer and the Potato Chips
While working as a pressman in a print shop, I met a salesman who told this story. A customer of his had a pressman who thought he could make more money in business for himself. So, he quit his job and financed a small print shop of his own. Things went well and he
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Art Good on Aug 14, 2007
Christmas night 2002, Jack Whittaker had five out of five numbers in the West Virginia Power ball drawing.
Jack Whittaker had just won $314 million, the largest undivided lottery jackpot in history. He took the one lump payment and received $113 million after taxes.
Listen closely to this part.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 17, 2007
There was a very large family that lived out in the country. They were always having financial problems. There was never enough money for food or clothes. They lived in an old beat up shack that they rented. Fortunately they had recently shot and killed a bear that had wandered onto their property.
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Lutheran
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Max Lucado in his book 3:16 notes the following about those living in the dead zone:
a. “He, at this very moment, issues invitations by the millions. He whispers through the kindness of a grandparent, shouts through the tempest of a tsunami. Through the funeral he cautions, ‘Life is fragile.’
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All he ever really wanted in life was more. He wanted more money, so he parlayed inherited wealth into a billion-dollar pile of assets. He wanted more fame, so he broke into the Hollywood scene and soon became a filmmaker and star. He wanted more sensual pleasures, so he paid handsome sums to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by David Moore on Mar 20, 2008
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It’s hard to believe that body snatching is still going on. Of course during the 17th and early 18th centuries, body snatching was rife. A growing number of anatomists, keen to improve their medical knowledge, needed corpses on which to conduct dissections, bodies were difficult to come by, as it
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 15, 2008
Plymouth, England, December 1: Being too particular about cleanliness can make you a lenient judge, says a strange but interesting British study.
Dr. Simone Schnall, a psychologist at University of Plymouth, stated that people who tend to wash their hands before making judgments are more likely to
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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HE DIED FOR EVERYONE--INCLUDING ME
The famed congregational preacher, Dwight L. Moody, once said,
"The great trouble is that people take everything in general, and do not take it to themselves. Suppose a man should say to me, 'Moody, there was a man in Europe who died last week, and left five
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Many years ago (1991), My wife and I received in the mail a notice that we had won an expensive home entertainment center, an all-expense-paid-trip for two to Hawaii, or $5,000 cash. All we had to do was send a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and they would notify us which prize was ours.
Now,
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 13, 2009
"Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways that most impress us: he was successful both financially and politically. He cleverly arranged to control the money of the apostolic band; he
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